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Directory of Fellows and Research Associates, 1999-Present

The American Antiquarian Society has been awarding visiting research fellowships since 1972-73. These stipend-bearing awards have enabled a diverse group of researchers to spend anywhere from one month to a full year in residence at the Society.

"An Undergraduate Course on Visual Culture in American Life, 1600-1900"

Laura

Murray

2010-11

Queen's University

associate professor

Tracy

What is an Newspaper? Exchange and Citation Practices in Antebellum American Dailies

Robert

Naeher

2006-7

Emma Willard School

chair

Peterson

Puritan Prayer, Expressive Voice, and the Shaping of Identity

David

Narrett

2001-2

University of Texas at Arlington

associate professor

ASECS

Borderland Republics: Vermont, West Florida, Texas, and the Politics of Union, 1760-1846

Margaret

Nash

2006-7

University of California, Riverdale

assistant professor

Peterson

Higher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class, and Race Identity in the United States, 1840-1875

Jonathan

Nash

2011-12

University at Albany, SUNY

PhD candidate

Peterson

'Not the best company': Children and Incarceration in the Early United States, 1787-1850

Adam

Nelson

2008-9

University of Wisconsin, Madison

associate professor

AAS-NEH

"Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University"

Megan

Nelson

2008-9

California State University, Fullerton

assistant professor

Last

"Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War."

Meredith

Neuman

2008-9

Clark University

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

"Letter and Spirit"

Lisa

Norwood

2001-2

Stanford University

graduate student

Morgan

Grounds for the New Nation: Constructing Sense of Place from 1780-1860

Kathryn

Nuernberger

2010

Glouster, OH

poet

Hearst

research for a collection of poems titled "Curiosities," which merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos

Mairin

Odle

2012-13

New York University

PhD candidate

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

Stories Written on the Body: Cross-Cultural Markings in the North American Atlantic, 1600-1830

Christopher

Oliver

2010-11

University of Virginia

PhD candidate

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

Civic Visions: The Panorama and Popular Amusement in American Art and Society, 1845-1870

Jason

Opal

2002-3

Brandeis University

PhD candidate

Legacy

Ambition and Democracy: Worldly Pursuits and Aspirations in New England, 1780 - 1830

Derek

Pacheco

2013-14

Purdue University

assistant professor

Packer

Transcendentalism and Children's Literature

Nikos

Pappas

2007-8

University of Kentucky

PhD candidate

Reese

"Sacred Music Tune Index of Southern and Western Source Material (1760-1870)

Claire

Parfait

2012-13

Universite de Paris 13

professor

Reese

African American Historians, 1830s-1930s: Book History and Historiography

Catherine

Parisian

2008-9

independent scholar

Reese

"A Publication History of the Works of Frances Burney."

Aimee

Parkison

2013

Charlotte, NC

fiction writer

Hearst

research for historical literary novel titled "The Dumb Supper", set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, exploring the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans

Susan

Parrish

2003-4

University of Michigan

assistant professor

Botein

Colonial and Early National American Almanac

Jeffrey

Pasley

2004-5

University of Missouri - Columbia

associate professor

ASECS

"Jeffersonian Democracy Revisited: Popular Political Culture in Print, 1800-1828"

Christopher

Pastore

2010-11

University of New Hampshire

PhD candidate

Peterson

From Sweetwater to Seawater; An Environmental and Atlantic History of Narragansett Bay, 1636-1836

Monique

Patenaude

2008-9

University of Rochester

PhD candidate

Peterson

"Comparative History of Black Communities in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, NY, 1840-1870."

Cynthia

Patterson

2008-9

University of South Florida, Lakeland

assistant professor

Last

"'Exclusively from Original Designs': The Philadelphia Pictorials and the Graphic Arts."

Emily

Pawley

2009-10

University of Pennsylvania

PhD candidate

AAS-NEH

'The Balance Sheet of Nature': Calculating the New York Farm, 1825-1860

Gustavo

Paz

2009-10

University of Buenos Aires

associate professor

Peterson

News from a Distant South: American Newspapers Report on the Latin American Revolutions for Independence (1810-1825)

Patricia

Pender

2013-14

University of Newcastle

associate professor

Reese

Anne Bradstreet's Publication History, 1650-1867

Seth

Perry

2009-10

University of Chicago

PhD candidate

Reese

The Bible and Religious Authority in Early-National America, 1770-1850

Dawn

Peterson

2012-13

New York University

Ph.D. in American Studies

Hench

Unusual Sympathies: Settler Imperialism, Slavery, and the Politics of Adoption in the Early U.S. Republic

Mark

Peterson

1999-00

University of Iowa

assistant professor

Botein

The Mather Family and the Construction of an Atlantic Protestant International

Elizabeth

Petrino

2007-8

Fairfield University

associate professor

Reese

"'Kitchen in Parnassus': Lydia Sigourney as Poet, Activist, and Historian"

Christopher

Phillips

2004-5

University of Cincinnati

associate professor

Peterson

"South of North: The Civil War on the Middle Border"

Christopher

Phillips

2012-13

Lafayette College

assistant professor

Lapides

The Hymn as a Vehicle for Children's Literacy, 1700-1850

Jennifer

Pierce

2009-10

The University of Iowa

assistant professor

Center for Historic American Visual Culture

The Reign of Children: Games and Toys in American Public Libraries

Yvette

Piggush

2011-12

Florida International University

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

We Have No Ruins: Historical Fiction and American Artifacts in the Early United States, 1790-1850

Yvette

Piggush

2009-10

Florida International University

assistant professor

Peterson

We Have No Ruins: Antiquarianism, Archives, and National Identity in the United States, 1790-1840

Lloyd

Pratt

2008-9

Michigan State University

assistant professor

NEMLA

The Freedoms of a Stranger, 1830-1860

Lloyd

Pratt

2009-10

Michigan State University

assistant professor

AAS-NEH

The Freedoms of a Stranger: American and African American Literature, 1830-1860

Katherine

Preston

2003-4

College of William & Mary

associate professor

Peterson

Against the Grain: English-Language Opera Companies in Late Nineteenth-Century America

Janet

Pritchard

2008

Mansfield Center, CT

photographier

Jay and Deborah Last

Views from Wonderland: exploration of making of Yellowstone National Park from 1870s - 1890s

Sally

Promey

2001-2

University of Maryland

professor

AHPCS

Religion in Plain View: The Public Aesthetics of American Belief

Elizabeth

Pryor

2010-11

Smith College

assistant professor

Peterson

The United States Itinerancy of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, 1812-1840

Sarah

Purcell

2007-8

Grinnell College

associate professor

Peterson

The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War

Matthew

Pursell

2003-4

Brown University

PhD candidate

Peterson

English Liberty, American Bondage: Servitude in the British Atlantic, 1630-1780

Helene

Quanquin

2009-10

University Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle

associate professor

Peterson

'With feebler voices?' Men and the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890

Melissa

Range

2013

Columbia, MO

poet

Baron

research for poetry project about the abolitionist movement, tentatively titled "Emanicipator"